Main Description

Frameworks are the foundation of good scholarship. They structure, organize and communicate research, underpin individual studies and shape the field of study as a whole. This book provides the first comprehensive and systematic review and critique of frameworks for tourism research. Theoretical, conceptual, analytical and integrative frameworks are all covered in detail, with the features, use, strengths and limitations of each form discussed and illustrated using a wide range of examples and applications across the field of tourism studies.

Readership

Academic libraries, upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students in tourism, industry personnel and policy makers.

Main Contents

1. Introduction: Frameworks and Tourism Research

2. Theoretical Frameworks

3. Conceptual Frameworks

4. Analytical Frameworks

5. Integrative Frameworks

6. Multi-purpose Matrices

7. Process Frameworks

8. Systems, Networks and Composite Frameworks

9. Selecting and Developing Frameworks

10. Frameworks and Future Directions in Tourism Research

Frameworks are the foundation of good scholarship. They structure, organize and communicate research, underpin individual studies and shape the field of study as a whole. This book provides the first comprehensive and systematic review and critique of frameworks for tourism research.

Pearce is Professor of Tourism Management at Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. He received his MA in geography from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch and completed a doctorat de troisième cycle at the Université d'Aix-Marseille II. Douglas has extensive tourism research experience in New Zealand, Europe, the South Pacific and Southeast Asia. He has published widely on diverse aspects of tourism, including the development and impact of tourism, the geography of tourism, distribution channels, tourism planning, tourism organizations and urban tourism. He is the author of Tourist Development, Tourism Today: a geographical analysis and Tourist Organizations and co-editor of Tourism Research: critiques and challengs; Change in Tourism: people, places, processes; Contemporary Issues in Tourism Development and Tourism Research: a 20-20 vision. His books have been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. Douglas is a Founding Fellow and former vice-president of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism.